50.8% of residents of New York speak English at home.
24.3% of residents speak Spanish at home (54% speak English very well, 18% speak English well, 18% speak English not well, 10% don't speak English at all).
12.9% of residents speak other Indo-European language at home (58% speak English very well, 24% speak English well, 14% speak English not well, 4% don't speak English at all).
9.0% of residents speak Asian or Pacific Island language at home (36% speak English very well, 25% speak English well, 27% speak English not well, 12% don't speak English at all).
3.1% of residents speak other language at home (71% speak English very well, 19% speak English well, 8% speak English not well, 2% don't speak English at all).

Foreign born population: 3,200,219 (37.5%)
(54.9% of them are naturalized citizens)

Percentage of workers working in this county: 53.5%Number of people working at home: 174,202 (4.3% of all workers)

Means of transportation to work

Drove a car alone: 1,063,192 (22%)

Carpooled: 200,582 (4%)

Bus or trolley bus: 549,495 (12%)

Streetcar or trolley car: 10,428 (0%)

Subway or elevated: 1,851,034 (39%)

Railroad: 350,528 (7%)

Ferryboat: 21,970 (0%)

Taxi: 69,743 (1%)

Bicycle: 48,657 (1%)

Walked: 394,589 (8%)

Worked at home: 174,202 (4%)

First ancestries reported:

American: 265,226

Italian: 258,795

Jamaican: 208,530

Haitian: 118,667

Irish: 103,696

Guyanese: 99,947

Russian: 95,195

Polish: 85,288

African: 82,262

Trinidadian and Tobagonian: 62,654

West Indian: 56,069

German: 49,785

European: 49,002

Ukrainian: 46,205

Greek: 39,815

Eastern European: 39,279

British West Indian: 38,318

Albanian: 32,973

English: 29,467

Nigerian: 27,435

Hungarian: 25,976

Ghanaian: 20,516

French (except Basque): 18,704

Egyptian: 17,831

Barbadian: 17,210

Romanian: 13,821

Arab: 13,184

Israeli: 12,476

Iranian: 9,912

Moroccan: 9,599

British: 9,525

Turkish: 9,420

Brazilian: 9,238

Armenian: 7,714

Lebanese: 7,374

Scottish: 6,339

Syrian: 6,316

Yugoslavian: 6,170

Macedonian: 5,997

Portuguese: 5,553

Croatian: 5,227

Swedish: 5,180

Afghan: 5,047

Dutch: 5,026

Austrian: 4,860

Canadian: 4,794

Palestinian: 4,469

Serbian: 4,146

Norwegian: 3,984

Scotch-Irish: 3,976

Belizean: 3,760

Czech: 3,615

Slovak: 3,489

Slavic: 3,386

Ethiopian: 3,243

French Canadian: 2,622

Senegalese: 2,622

Belgian: 2,517

Liberian: 2,458

Bulgarian: 2,449

Sudanese: 2,377

Lithuanian: 2,208

Swiss: 2,175

U.S. Virgin Islander: 2,137

Australian: 2,092

Latvian: 1,901

Danish: 1,898

Northern European: 1,696

South African: 1,532

Finnish: 1,475

Maltese: 1,217

Welsh: 1,209

Jordanian: 1,175

Scandinavian: 980

Czechoslovakian: 901

Kenyan: 895

Cypriot: 774

Soviet Union: 589

New Zealander: 576

Slovene: 522

Sierra Leonean: 469

Cape Verdean: 458

Estonian: 423

Dutch West Indian: 397

Bahamian: 387

Iraqi: 301

Somali: 261

Bermudan: 244

Basque: 220

Icelander: 163

Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac: 153

Cajun: 114

German Russian: 108

Zimbabwean: 90

Pennsylvania German: 88

Ugandan: 36

Luxemburger: 21

Carpatho Rusyn: 19

Most common places of birth for the foreign-born residents (%):

14%Dominican Republic

11%China, excluding Hong Kong and Taiwan

6%Mexico

6%Jamaica

4%Guyana

4%Ecuador

3%Haiti

Place of birth for U.S.-born residents:

This state: 4,089,889

Other state: 946,294

Northeast: 315,197

Midwest: 153,990

South: 333,325

West: 143,782

90% of New York residents lived in the same house 1 years ago.Out of people who lived in different houses, 39% lived in this county.Out of people who lived in different counties, 27% lived in New York.